Bishop David: for the Church to become truly “Synodal,” it requires everyone’s participation in the call of apostleship and being in communion with Christ Himself.
Fr. Winston Cabading, OP, strongly reiterated that the Vatican decision regarding the nature of the alleged Marian apparition in Lipa, Batangas, is “definitive and final” and, therefore, cannot be challenged or overturned.
Journalist and award-winning author Jose A. Torres is the new chief of the Philippine Information Agency following an announcement by President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr.
“The majority of the workers have been impoverished. So, if you ask me how the situation of the workers in the past years is, it has really grown worse,” Bishop Gerardo Alminaza said.
"The need to foster interreligious and intercultural exchanges to the extent that they enable a deeper appreciation of one's identity and the realization of his "giftedness for others" simultaneously' said O'Byrne, one of the speakers at the Annual Saint Thomas Aquinas Forum (STAF)
Known as the Adopt-A-Seminarian Scholarship Program, this educational grant looks at offering monetary assistance to more deserving young men aspiring for the priesthood.
“We are deeply saddened and strongly condemn the violent dispersal and unlawful arrests conducted last Friday, April 14, against peaceful rallyists by close to a hundred private security guards of Ipilan Nickel Corporation in Brooke’s Point, backed by a contingent of 30 PNP [Philippine National Police] forces who silently watched and abetted them,” said Bishops Bishop Mesiona and Pabillo,
Bishop Marcelino Antonio Malabanan Maralit said, “Make it a commitment in your life, especially if you have faith to live and fight for the truth, if we are now committed to the truth, then we must discover the truth.”
Bishop Emmanuel Trance read the Pope's letter in which the Pope expressed his closeness to the local Church and recalled the late bishop's "many years of devoted priestly and episcopal ministry."
“Our life is a dialogue with the poor, and I think, and I believe that that's the only way or the only measure I have of my fidelity as a bishop. If as a bishop I live in this dialogue with the poor, it won't be challenging in our diocese,” Bishop Marcelino Antonio Malabanan Maralit explained.
Bishop Victor Dela Cruz Ocampo of Gumaca Diocese, Philippines, passed away at 5:58 PM at the hospital in Gumaca in Quezon province, Philippines, on March 16 from a heart attack at 71.
Chin people observe February 20 as Chin National Day. Chin people live in many places, especially Chin State, Rakhine State, Sagaing Division, Bago and Magwe Division in Myanmar and in Mizoram State in India.
Novaliches Diocese in the Philippines celebrated the Day of Consecrated Life and the ceremony of closing the Jubilee door of the 500 Jubilee year of Christianity’s existence in the Philippines.
Filipino Catholic bishops will gather in at the Pope Pius XII Catholic Center in Manila from January 28 to 30 for their 125th plenary assembly. The meeting involves discussions on a broad range of topics affecting the faithful in the country.